The internet is one of the very few things that we have produced in the last 50-75 years that has somewhat progressed humanity but in all honesty, I see the world regressing on all fronts.
It may have allowed a relative minority to educate themselves and wake up, but social media and mass propaganda has dumbed down the vast majority, separating us into echo chambers with no meaningful way to communicate to the other side until they are 5 jabs in to their demise. Idiocracy was supposed to happen in 500 years, not 14. Meanwhile they are gobbling up all our personal data freely to power their algorithms. I think they flipped the switch on the AI back in 2016 and it's hard to even tell anymore who are authentic users from bots.
It may have allowed a relative minority to educate themselves and wake up, but social media and mass propaganda has dumbed down the vast majority, separating us into echo chambers with no meaningful way to communicate to the other side until they are 5 jabs in to their demise. Idiocracy was supposed to happen in 500 years, not 14. Meanwhile they are gobbling up all our personal data freely to power their algorithms. I think they flipped the switch on the AI back in 2016 and it's hard to even tell anymore who are authentic users from bots.
Anyway that's just the surface level analysis.